Today's video looks at recent news affecting the semiconductor market. A report on graphics processing units (GPUs) by Jon Peddie Research has stated that Nvidia (NVDA 2.13%) has grabbed discrete GPU market share from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD 0.79%). Here are some highlights from the video.
- The report was posted on Aug. 26, and shows that for the second quarter of 2021, AMD has about 17% of the PC discrete GPU market share, and Nvidia has 83%. Nvidia has increased by roughly 3 percentage points year over year and approximately 2 percentage points quarter over quarter.
- At the moment, Intel (INTC 2.11%) is not known for its discrete GPUs, but that will change in the upcoming months. Intel is expected to release Alchemist, its high-performance GPUs, in the first quarter of 2022.
- Nvidia completed its acquisition of DeepMap on Aug. 26. DeepMap is a start-up dedicated to building high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles. Nvidia currently has the Nvidia Drive platform, a platform that helps the development of autonomous vehicles. The acquisition of DeepMap improves the services Nvidia can provide to its customers.
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*Stock prices used were the midday prices of Aug. 27, 2021. The video was published on Aug. 27, 2021.
